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East Central Ia | I am 20 mins from Durant where the warehouse is. Ron personally came out and looked at it 2 years ago. We did find a couple things to tweek but we ended up putting a whole new sickle in it, complete with new knives. It made it the rest of that season and the next (1200acs). We almost made it through this season and started breaking the sickle drive head again. Put a new one on it and broke that one. I think our 3rd one made the last hundred acres but the sickle did break at least once more... just not the drive head.
Is it possible that the wobble box is wore out and allowing it to "over stroke" causing it to flex a tiny bit at the drive head? Otherwise I have no idea how it breaks the drive head which is essentially three times as thick as the sickle alone. We have looked at it every which way from sunday and can not see anywhere that its even close to hitting anything on the drive end.
We wanted to put the SCH Pro drive thingy on it but they don't make one for this head... at least they didn't then. Said the mounts were funky and there wasn't room for it. | |
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Flex draper Honeybee or Macdon
